Software Engineer, Clearance, Air Defense

Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

Location:

Irvine, California, United States

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company whose mission is to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By applying the expertise, models, and technology of 21st‑century innovators to the defense industry, Anduril changes how military systems are designed, built, and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI‑powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a real‑time, 3D command and control center.

The Air Defense team builds robots that detect airborne threats and neutralize them. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join a rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. In this role you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more. Your work will ensure that Anduril products work together to achieve critical outcomes. Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing expediently, scalably, and pragmatically while keeping the mission top‑of‑mind.

• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
• Write code to improve products and scale mission capability to more customers
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
• Triage issues, root‑cause failures, and coordinate next steps
• Partner with end‑users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Travel 30% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
• 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, etc.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established codebases
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real‑world impact

• Experience with NixOS
• Developing and testing multi‑agent autonomous systems and deploying in real‑world environments
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees
• Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety‑critical functionality
• Distributed communication networks and message standards
• Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics

US Salary Range: $220,000 – $292,000 USD (base salary only; equity and additional benefits are included in the full compensation package).

Benefits:
Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package at little to no cost to employees, supporting health, recovery, and overall well‑being.